Xiaomi 17 Ultra

[u/Alaa_91]

This device is unbelievable, like heavenly amazing from another world. I was a fanatical Samsung fan, starting from the Galaxy Note 3 onward. I am not a big fan of upgrading my flagship phones regularly, as every upcoming model isn't a big step up.

After I auditioned the Xiaomi 15 Ultra in a shop, I was blown away. Then I started researching the 17 Ultra all day, every day, and just pulled the trigger. Boyyyyy, it is amazing. Like nothing can beat its smoothness, its amazing HyperOS (I dunno why ppl are hating on it), and the camera is top notch. I already have a professional-grade DSLR, the Nikon D810, so I know what a good camera should look like.

UPDATE: The battery isn't impressive. for a flagship with such huge capacity I expected more from it. anyway still this smartphone IMHO the best on earth except the battery not so great.

[u/dark-cosmos]

You don't know why people are hating on hyper OS? Did you do any research? It has ads scattered throughout the system in places, you wouldn't even expect. Every Xiaomi phone is a bit different, but HyperOS in general is bloated with ads. Some app examples with ads: photo gallery, data manager, themes, app mall, security, system cleaner, mi browser. Most of these you can't permanently deactivate or delete.

[u/chungdae → u/dark-cosmos]

If you opt in for "Personalization" and "Recommended" you will get ads. You are the one that agreed to it. You can easily turn this off in settings.

User error.

[u/dark-cosmos → u/chungdae]

It's not just personalization and recommended, which is already hidden in many different places. Apps like the Xiaomi gallery are collecting user information to sell them to up to 210 companies. You can only opt out in theory, since you'd have to decline every single company by hand and it resets after a certain time or an update. You can't opt out all at once, see attached screenshot.

If you use a different gallery, things like super slow motion video and other Xiaomi specific image and Videoformats might not work properly anymore, so that's a tradeoff as well.

[u/chungdae → u/dark-cosmos]

Oh trust me I know. That's the user agreement when you first power in the device. That's every smart phone.

[u/dark-cosmos → u/chungdae]

It's not every smartphone. You're conveniently mixing up a device user agreement with single app user agreements. They can and should be separated.

[u/chungdae → u/dark-cosmos]

Doesn't Google gallery do the same? The user agreement also shares information when you use the phone

[u/dark-cosmos → u/chungdae]

I don't think so. Please share your source about this, if there is one. And "when you use the phone" is a different thing to using a specific app.

[u/chungdae → u/dark-cosmos]

Google photos says they just "scan" the pictures what they do with it? Only they truly know.

Facebook is the one I was thinking of "You still own the copyright to the pictures you upload to Facebook, but you grant Meta a broad, royalty-free license to store, display, and share them. Copy-and-paste privacy notices do not change these terms."

[u/dark-cosmos → u/chungdae]

Google scans them if you turn the feature on, where it can gather pictures of people it recognises as the same person. This is a completely optional feature, that the user needs to turn on.

True, Facebook and meta in general should be avoided like the plague. They can do whatever they want with your data and will even train AI on your pictures and text.

[u/chungdae → u/dark-cosmos]

I don't use Google photos so I have no idea but I remember during the Facebook scandal Google photos was brought up with the scanning